expy

Contraction of expressway.

Noun abbreviation, alt of

A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.
- I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
- The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly. - 2014,...
- The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […] - 2018 February 27, Amy Nash, “You should be watching Monster Factory”, in Concrete, University of East Anglia,...

From a clipping of exported character + -y. Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.